‘Well,’ she said apologetically. ‘I really don’t remember any Whiteman coming that close to me!’ It was Reverend Brimstone who solved the mystery. A week before Christmas, on Tuesday the eighteenth of December, she performed the out-dooring ceremony for her baby boy. Mani, Alexandra, the Charcoal Woman, Pauline and James, Auntie Naashika and quite a number of other guests gathered for the occasion. It was then that Reverend Brimstone reminded Sava. ‘The Cuban doctor, he said tersely. ‘He was not white!’ Sava protested. ‘He was partly white. And so are you. Your great-grandfather was white, a Dutch trader. That’s how you’ve got that Dutch surname in the family. And as much as I remember, your father was white too. A Slovenian electrician. That’s why you were named Sava and Drava.’ Sava was flabbergasted! ‘Mother, is that true?’ ‘If Reverend says so, it must be true.’
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